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[Q] [FAILED] Odin with Epic?

Hello Everyone,
I'm a newbie, this morning i was messing around with my phone and found this post about updating to android 2.2 but i missed the part where it said do not install on EPIC.
I believe my phone is running EPIC.
I did a very bad move by removing the cable at the downloading mode. =(
I know i screwed up pretty bad.
here is the screen
can someone please give me instruction of how to reset or back to factory setting?
Thanks a lot for anyone help

sorry I forgot to post my phone is a Galaxy S
Thank you everyone

ok i got it fixed and back in the game.

how i have the same exact problem please help
i have samsung epic
I fixed my problem it turns out I had a bad tar file

Nightkidz said:
ok i got it fixed and back in the game.
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hi,i meet the same problem as you. :-(
can u tell me how you fix it at last?
thx very much!

would you mind sharing how u were able to fix it? i'm on the same screen.

For all you guys ... You need to enter download mode using 3 button combo and then flash a full package with odin .
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just keep trying to get into download mode. it may take a few tries/battery pull but it will eventually work! Do not fear

Galaxy Tab bricked.. like really bricked

Ok guys, I feel this is just the end of the games... I was flashing back the Roto JME fw with the swype keyboard issue fixed that I have just made, when I accidentally unplugged the tab while starting flashing and in downloading mode.
Now all I get is a logo with a phone an alert symbol and a computer .
Windows as well as Odin see it, but I can't do anything, as Odin hangs on waiting for connection, or something like that.
Is there anything I can do?? Or do I really have to take it to the warranty? And if I will have to take it to the warranty will they see I have previously flashed a beta rooted image on it??
Here's what I am talking about
Please I need some help..
Thanks

Is there no recovery mode by buttons like the captivate? I hate seeing all the bricks
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Its not bricked
heimdall close-pc-screen
should restart it
then power it off
then put it into download mode again using power + volume down
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Technomancer said:
Its not bricked
heimdall close-pc-screen
should restart it
then power it off
then put it into download mode again using power + volume down
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damn it says Failed to access device. Error: -12 .. I am on windows with latest version of heimdall ...

Segnale007 said:
damn it says Failed to access device. Error: -12 .. I am on windows with latest version of heimdall ...
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Ops, it was the driver... damn windows ...
Solved btw.. I just realized I have lots of things to learn ... I have almost died of heart attack when I saw my tab stucked on that logo.. and now its back again..
Thank u falks

You need to make sure samsung kies are not running for sure unistall it and try it again

use odin. that is still download mode. might take you a couple of tries but works. i was in your shoes the other day

Everything is fixed thanks to Tecnomancer. Thank u guys
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Could you please list the steps you went through in order to fix this - for everyone else's sake? Thx!
Segnale007 said:
Everything is fixed thanks to Tecnomancer. Thank u guys
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I've heard plenty of goofy stories about bricking devices over the years. You must conclude the following:
1.Flash your device in a locked room to avoid your wife/ child pulling cables or pressing buttons.
2.Don't touch anything while you're flashing. This is why many people that could help you will ignore you after reading about 'accidentally disconnected' wires - they just assume you're a moron not worth helping.
3.Read instructions carefully and write the procedure out in your own words if its your first time.
I've been flashing for years and haven't had a brick yet. Not crossing my fingers either because it has little to do with luck and much to do with care. In this way its a lot like making babies...

ftgg99 said:
2.Don't touch anything while you're flashing. This is why many people that could help you will ignore you after reading about 'accidentally disconnected' wires - they just assume you're a moron not worth helping.
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Good advice.
My only semi-bricks (that involved an hour or two of trial and error to unbrick) resulted from some manner of overzealous cable unplugging.

zyborg said:
Could you please list the steps you went through in order to fix this - for everyone else's sake? Thx!
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This is what I have done
Technomancer said:
Its not bricked
heimdall close-pc-screen
should restart it
then power it off
then put it into download mode again using power + volume down
-d
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ftgg99 said:
2.Don't touch anything while you're flashing. This is why many people that could help you will ignore you after reading about 'accidentally disconnected' wires - they just assume you're a moron not worth helping.
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Well, first of all thanks for ur nice words. Let me just say that I was about to disconnect another device from the hub where the GTAB was attached and flashing at that time, and yea, I accidentally unplugged the GTAB instead of the other device. I may be a moron, thanks, and thankfully not everyone believes themselves as god, which is a good reason to not help other people who are in troubles, even if for stupid things sometimes... If everyone were thinking like u we were probably still at the age of 1400 ...

Mate it wasn't a barb directed at you personally, but you weren't exactly careful were you?
I'm no god... but I've never bricked a device either, and I've been flashing for over five years now. To top it off I've almost never owned a device which could be taken back to the shop (90% of them come from other countries, not my local retailers). Perhaps this has taught me to be careful.
In any case, what I said holds true, and if you ask around I'm certain you find most will agree.

Dude, you have the best avatar! I can't keep my eyes away! Good luck, and don't worry about mistakes - that is one reason this forum exists.

Cannot start my Gtab after trying update JMC
...Hello everybody,
I am really worry about the fact my Gtab doesn't want to switch on after trying to flash it. I tried all process to put it on download mode or recovery but nothing work.
Do you have any idea about it ? Is there a specific procedure to switch on (eg : press power for 1 minutes + blablabla).
My provider doesn't want to take my Gtab in warenty before my contract is activated (the 4th of february).
Thank you for your answer

HELP, I have same problem, please explain how Hemidall can fix it?
Thanks
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zyborg said:
Could you please list the steps you went through in order to fix this - for everyone else's sake? Thx!
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I also had a semi-bricked VZW Tab, with the phone-triangle-computer warning graphic at start up. (I flashed a new boot loader, and failed to read the instructions closely enough. Either the file was incorrect for my device, or the drivers were not loaded correctly, but my tablet was borked.)
Using heimdall 1.3.2 (with the correct drivers, on a 32-bit windows system), I clicked the "close pc screen" option to clear the warning.
I then held the power button until it turned off, then held vol+ and power to re-enter download mode. Once in download mode, I used heimdall 1.1.1 to flash the zImage from SCH-I800-Stock-Rooted-2.3.5. My tablet (still unrooted, and still stock?) booted, but sat at the SAMSUNG logo for ten minutes or more. (It announced its progress, telling me periodically "five minutes remaining", etc.)
Once it finished, my tablet was revived. I will now follow the above advice and read all instructions very carefully, re-writing them in my own words to ensure I understand what I'm doing, before I try this again.

One year old thread......do you guys ever watch posting dates???
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...like REALLY bricked
bumping this old thread in hopes that someone can point me in the right direction...
Got my p7510 (10.1" wifi retail) stuck pretty badly when trying to restore stock ROM coming from Overcome (it came rooted from ebay). From what I gather from the forums, seems like my bootloader is still locked.
whenever I attempt to flash a BOOTLOADER, PIT, or PDA using ODIN it connects, initializes, and gets stuck on "Flashing boot.img"
I think the recovery partition is damaged. When I boot using Power + Volume Down, I can get to the screen where you select recovery mode or download mode but recovery mode will not load. The screen flickers when I select recovery, but goes nowhere. Download mode works.
I tried using nvflash to force the right software onto it but I get error 0x4 (usb write failed).
There has to be a way to restore the stock bootloader and get this thing running again. Tablet will not boot android at this point. I have been searching the forums for about a week now, anyone have any ideas?

Tried updating to ICS through KIES. Update failed

Hello guys.
I really need some help. Im going away for 2 weeks on 4 June. And after i come back ill be ghone after 2 days again for 2 weeks and i need my phone!
My story:
I saw an update for my phone to ICS. So i plugged on my laptop and put the update on with KIES 2.1.3.
At about 64% the update didnt go ferther and it gave an error report.
The program KIES shut down, and my phone turned off.
I putted everything back on. But now my phone says this:
''Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in KIES & try again.''
KIES doesnt see my phone anymore. And the recovery mode i found on the internet.
Volume button up, home button+ power button doesnt work.
It keeps going to this screen.
My phone was 2.3.6 standard, non rooted etc etc.
How can i fix this fast?
I tried rooting and flashing, but i just cant do anything with my phone exept this screen i explained.
Thanks in advance.
Mitchell

Can you get your phone into download mode.
Device off>vol-down+home+power ?

Belfia said:
Can you get your phone into download mode.
Device off>vol-down+home+power ?
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I didnt knew about this mode.
Yes it worked.
Seems a little bit like hope for me?
Thanks.

damitch300 said:
I didnt knew about this mode.
Yes it worked.
Seems a little bit like hope for me?
Thanks.
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Just download ODIN app for Windows, get right stock firmware from development thread ( Dr. Ketan's post ) and flash it with ODIN. It's as simple as clicking select file and start. Everything is described in the thread with firmware downloads.

Yes. Then there is hope. Now I recommend you to try flashing one of the stock roms from dr.ketans thread in development section.
Its not very complicated. But feel free to ask if you need more help.

I just cant explain how happy i am with this forum.
Brings so much luck into live
Thanks.
Ill see if i need more help. Hopefully not.

Is there any dutch ICS rom?
Or should i stick with a basic english?

I got exactly the same problem. Called T-Mobile's helpdesk. With everything I asked, the girl said, it's in the manual. Finally, the best she had to offer was for me to send my Note to Samsung.
So then I started looking for a solution myself and found it here.
Solved it with the said solution. Flashing with Odin is a piece of cake. Thanks for the expertise folks.

Good thing we can help. Wouldnt call myself an expert though

damulder said:
I got exactly the same problem. Called T-Mobile's helpdesk. With everything I asked, the girl said, it's in the manuel. Finally, the best she had to offer was for me to send my Note to Samsung.
So then I started looking for a solution myself and found it here.
Solved it with the said solution. Flashing with Odin is a piece of cake. Thanks for the expertise folks.
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Well i searched for hours to. My sister had her S2 upgraded with KIES. That worked, but the ICS update itself was plain suck.
I fixed it thanks to XDA forum. Nothing found on the internet exept sending to help desk.
Same with what i got now.
But now it is fixed and im thankfull to the ones helping.
Now i am willing to try ICS without KIES.

Lol in kies you have recovery mode you missed an option
Good thing you got it fixed
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baz77 said:
Lol in kies you have recovery mode you missed an option
Good thing you got it fixed
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Like i said, KIES didnt see my phone. Neither did windows.
So it wasnt an option.

Glad its fixed
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BTW, after getting my Note up and running again, I used KIES again for updating to ICS and this time I had no problem at all.

damulder said:
BTW, after getting my Note up and running again, I used KIES again for updating to ICS and this time I had no problem at all.
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For me this didnt work. KIES had an upgrade, but seems like it still doesnt do the job right.

Ran some tests. Now i am back at the issue.
Now Odin doesnt want to continue updating like KIES always does.
I wish i didnt do the tests...

damitch300 said:
Ran some tests. Now i am back at the issue.
Now Odin doesnt want to continue updating like KIES always does.
I wish i didnt do the tests...
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what tests are you referring to?
and i'm guessing you're on Mac? and having trouble with kies identifying your device?

ngocdao said:
what tests are you referring to?
and i'm guessing you're on Mac? and having trouble with kies identifying your device?
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W7 Ultimate N
And trying out different KIES versions.
Well at the 2nd update 2.3.6 to 4.0.3 it ran stuck again.
And now Odin doesnt do anything to aswell. Keeps saying ''Failure'' after some time.

Now ODIN is stuck at syaing ''BOOT'' above ID:COM.
How can i fix this?

Well seems like the Dutch roms aint working.
I did an European right now wich worked.

[Q] screen gone black!

hi guys im wondering if any of yous can give me some idea as to what happened to my galaxy note.first of all i will start by saying i am a noob at this?ok so i tried to update my note to ics using odin v1.83.i put in download mode and the box came up yellow and i clicked on pda and then i hit start.now i didnt do a backup because 1 im stupid and too i didnt think i needed to as there wasnt really anything on the fone that i needed or so i tought.anyways everything went fine until it didnt reboot.so i unpluged it and took out the battery and reinserted it.to find that that fone was starting up but with no visual on sccreen or nothing.please tell me im not screwed.iv left it back with vodafone as this is my network.just want to know whats gonna happen really.cheers guys any advice would be great?

fonepimp said:
hi guys im wondering if any of yous can give me some idea as to what happened to my galaxy note.first of all i will start by saying i am a noob at this?ok so i tried to update my note to ics using odin v1.83.i put in download mode and the box came up yellow and i clicked on pda and then i hit start.now i didnt do a backup because 1 im stupid and too i didnt think i needed to as there wasnt really anything on the fone that i needed or so i tought.anyways everything went fine until it didnt reboot.so i unpluged it and took out the battery and reinserted it.to find that that fone was starting up but with no visual on sccreen or nothing.please tell me im not screwed.iv left it back with vodafone as this is my network.just want to know whats gonna happen really.cheers guys any advice would be great?
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Lets hope you haven't hard bricked it like I did. Are you not able to get anything on the screen at all? Does PC Odin show a cable connection when you connect your phone to your PC via data cable?

Not sure what exactly do you mean by phone starting with no visuals. How do you know it's starting up if you can't see anything ?
Anyway, check if you can enter download mode again - power+home+vol.down. Even without screen, after that press volume up to continue - if it works, Odin should detect your phone. If it does, just flash it again. Probably just a bad/unfinished flash.

Akiainavas said:
Check if you can enter download mode again - power+home+vol.down. If yes, just flash it again. Probably just a bad/unfinished flash.
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Or you could try a USB JIG if that doesn't work.

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Please post questions in the Q&A section​

Ahem. Read guys. He said he gave it to vodafone for service.
OP just wants a hint at what might be wrong with it.

screen gone black
cheers guys.to answer some of the questions.first it still detects in odin and i have tried or roms or updates.still not working.2.you can hear the start music when i power on.then the screen is just black.

counter binary away

Hi guys just a quick question because im bricked is it possible to reset counter through download mode or odin or anyway..THANKS

use triangle away

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Blackwolf10 said:
use triangle away
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As i said bricked cant use main touchscreen only my buttons work Their has to be away...

cancerfour69 said:
As i said bricked cant use main touchscreen only my buttons work Their has to be away...
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ok then flash a stock Rom with odin get it from sammobile and hope it changes the status and these are the only 2 ways AFAIK

Blackwolf10 said:
ok then flash a stock Rom with odin get it from sammobile and hope it changes the status and these are the only 2 ways AFAIK
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It wouldn't be bricked if he could flash a stock rom. Read the question. If you don't know don't answer.
To answer if you can't use the touch screen I think you're stuffed. I'm not aware if you can start apk manually ie triangle away via adb. Maybe someone more technical can help you.
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me_ashman said:
It wouldn't be bricked if he could flash a stock rom. Read the question. If you don't know don't answer.
To answer if you can't use the touch screen I think you're stuffed. I'm not aware if you can start apk manually ie triangle away via adb. Maybe someone more technical can help you.
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well the OP mentioned odin and download mode so thought he can get to there it doesn't need touch just buttons to get to download mode and then flash a stock via PC odin
as for bricking there is something called soft bricking

me_ashman said:
It wouldn't be bricked if he could flash a stock rom. Read the question. If you don't know don't answer.
To answer if you can't use the touch screen I think you're stuffed. I'm not aware if you can start apk manually ie triangle away via adb. Maybe someone more technical can help you.
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But he can get into download mode. It doesn't sound like he's bricked to me. Bricked would mean you can't even get to download mode. Soft bricked sounds like where he is at and he can most likely ODIN back to stock.
OP is new here, I think he needs to read the stickies.

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Thanks guys for replys. Yes I can flash all roms for 9305 still.my problem is I can't access main screen to triangle away so I can send for repairs,but strangething is I have bottom left and right touch screen and all buttons.As to adb triagle away havent tryed that if its possible.phone seems to be working behind screen I can receive calls messages box appears.oh welll either software glitch or new digitizer

cancerfour69 said:
Thanks guys for replys. Yes I can flash all roms for 9305 still.my problem is I can't access main screen to triangle away so I can send for repairs,but strangething is I have bottom left and right touch screen and all buttons.As to adb triagle away havent tryed that if its possible.phone seems to be working behind screen I can receive calls messages box appears.oh welll either software glitch or new digitizer
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so ur touchscreen does work but the screen is gone ?? did u drop it ?? same happened with my relative's S2 he dropped it the touch was working but screen was black had to replace the screen but u can use a program called moborobo one of it's features is it can show u the screen on a pc so u can see what ur doing and get that triangle away working

Fixed for warranty
PHEW...Well guys managed to get it triangle d away and official Sammy firmware,BIG THANKYOU for advice about ADB without that never would of happened..Okay here is a brief explanation(remember when my dad used to say that 30 minutes later....)Right first off installed SDK ,next ADB controller 1.2 zip which you can find on xda just type ADB and the guys work is on first page..next Download THE GALAXY PROJECT ROM because USB and ADB are enabled by default,ran zip and the rest was history...warranty back off to repair centreXXx

if u bricked the touchscreen you can still plug an USB-on-the-go cable to the phone and then plug a mouse into the USB-OTG-cable.
then use the mouse instead of touchscreen inputs. For me it worked perfect

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Nexxus23 said:
if u bricked the touchscreen you can still plug an USB-on-the-go cable to the phone and then plug a mouse into the USB-OTG-cable.
then use the mouse instead of touchscreen inputs. For me it worked perfect
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Agreed except had no usb mouse so did it way i explained..wich worked fine for me...Thanks hopefully phone should be okay now as returned back from repairs shall test tonight when back from work...again thaks everyone for usefull input especially ABOUT ADB GODSEND THAT PIECE OF SOFTWARE Xx

similar problem occurred to me right now. my I9300, running Glamour S4 rom, rooted, with Philz recovery. Everuthing was okay, but when Inpicked it up a few minutes ago, no screen!, onnly hard buttons work. It still works, receive phone calls, triggers alarms, but no screen. Any way out?

guerouig said:
similar problem occurred to me right now. my I9300, running Glamour S4 rom, rooted, with Philz recovery. Everuthing was okay, but when Inpicked it up a few minutes ago, no screen!, onnly hard buttons work. It still works, receive phone calls, triggers alarms, but no screen. Any way out?
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don't spam your question all over

Glebun said:
don't spam your question all over
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sorry mate! sheer panic, with 200$ at stake

cancerfour69 said:
PHEW...Well guys managed to get it triangle d away and official Sammy firmware,BIG THANKYOU for advice about ADB without that never would of happened..Okay here is a brief explanation(remember when my dad used to say that 30 minutes later....)Right first off installed SDK ,next ADB controller 1.2 zip which you can find on xda just type ADB and the guys work is on first page..next Download THE GALAXY PROJECT ROM because USB and ADB are enabled by default,ran zip and the rest was history...warranty back off to repair centreXXx
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sir can you show me a tutorial.. because i've encountered the same issue, however i am stuck at the samsung galaxy welcome screen because i have flashed the s3 with a stock rom pls help me thx in advance